NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Price

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$ 599.99

$ 598.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1198.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %

230 %

350% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

123 FPS

564 FPS

440 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS

348 FPS

288 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS

496 FPS

409 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS

212 FPS

165 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714

29233

235% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89470

198144

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84353

224083

165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1855 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2500 MHz

40% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

24 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

384 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

960 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

108% significantly lower TDP

355 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

480 Gigapixels/s

462% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

960 Gigatexels/s

382% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

61.42 TFLOPS

382% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

6144

71% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

384

242% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 549

1st of 549

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021

December 2022

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon RX 7900 XTX has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.